NGC 4660 in the Virgo cluster of galaxies
Virgo cluster galaxy NGC 4660, na elliptical located about 50 million light-years from Earth. Hubble's "eye" is so sharp that it was able to pick out the fuzzy globular clusters, which, at that distance, look like individual stars bunched up around the galaxies, instead of groupings of stars.
Credit:
ESA, NASA and E. Peng (Peking University, Beijing)
About the Image
Press Release
| Id: | heic0815b |
| Release date: | Aug 5, 2008, 15:00 CEST |
| Related release: | heic0815 |
| Size: | 2000 x 2000 px |
About the Object
| Name: | NGC 4660 |
| Type: | • Galaxies Images/Videos |
